Vocabulary

• in the hospital: Located inside a hospital receiving medical care.
• relevant: Having an effect on an issue; related or current
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• practical: Relating to what is sensible, real or useful
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• integrate: To combine together; make into one thing
• heritage: Traditional beliefs or customs of a culture
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• preserve: To cook food so it can be kept for long periods
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• expertise: The special knowledge that an expert has
• adopt: To legally take a child into your family
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• seek: To ask someone for help
• evaluate: To form an idea to judge something carefully
• vision: Ability to see; eyesight
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• objective: Being real, rather than simply being an idea
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• leave: To go away from; depart
• digital: Using electronic signals or computers
• forum: Meeting where people can openly discuss a subject
• swollen: To increase in size or number larger than normal
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• laboratory: A place to do scientific experiments
• maximize: To make as large or great as possible
• diagnostic: Concerning finding out the cause of a problem
• clinic: Local medical center; department of a hospital
• ankle: Region or joint between the foot and the leg
• datum: Item of factual information
• ministry: Body of religious workers and leaders
• transformation: A complete change in shape or form of something
• acupuncture: Treating illness by putting needles in the skin
• personalize: To make personal or more personal
• standardize: To change to make everything the same level